COPHATIMES

 Can't believe this is journalism. It took me a couple days, speaking with on ground sources, looking up Twitter, asking questions to find out the number initially of those killed was more than 25 and only climbing up. Yet, all media outlets said the same number, 6. This was a large discrepancy. Usually, most of us would be like hmm if they're all saying the same thing it must be true. NO. They're all piggy backing off the same info. If these discrepancies happen with numbers that minimizes impact and death toll, imagine what else is going on out there. what stats and numbers they're lying about (we know with Yemen they've been extremely coy as well).  What we will be doing at @tmjnewsnetwork inshallah that is journalism 👊 check out the latest piece I wrote there 

 “Who we are as a people is infinitely complex. I am talking about the Oromo, of course, but I think I’m also talking about us all. If I have learned anything over the past year and seven months, it is that I will only ever keep living and reliving this one truth: people, their stories, and their lived realities are not linear, rigid, or made to be easily and simply comprehended. Life exists on a continuum of relationships and storytelling. I want to remain willing to relate to who people are, as they are, rather than clinging onto what I have constructed of a people through imagination, hearsay, and the effects of groupthink.” Read more at: https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2022/04/22/a-diasporan-oromo-visits-kenya-a-reflection/?fbclid=IwAR10kMrgNgv2BIT6UZW0dGuwBoJvPr2Y_DF1jnLn_Fc3FLj6oUFg0gKSBx4#.YmM2ZklBDSg.facebook The Elephant - Speaking truth to power.

 What often puzzles me of the composition of Ethiopia’s federal government cabinet is the fact that they got ministerial portfolios for sectors like CULTURE and EDUCATION . While Ethiopia is constitutionally a multinational—and hence multicultural—federation, it’s odd that the federal government runs ministries dedicated to a certain culture and/or education system. Canada is a good example for doing great job by avoiding such counterproductive stuff😎 Well, article 51/3 of the constitution grants the federal government only to “establish and implement national standards and basic policy criteria for public health, education, science and technology as well as for the protection and preservation of cultural and historical legacies”. Power to contextually draft and implement policies, laws per their own needs, on these contentious issues are for the states. To be sure, this power of the federal government is about establishing standards and some basic policy criteria for education, scien